Progressive web application version of Wikipedia mobile web.

Experimentation project trying to see how feasible it is to make Wikipedia a progressive web app for a better UX and faster interactions on slow connections.

Technologies used:

• React.js
• Redux
• React router
• Node.js
• Service Worker
• Webpack
• Less
• Universal/Isomorphic JS
  • Server rendered webapp
  • UI tests running in node
• Live reloading
• IDB/localstorage caching
• Docs (Gitbook)

It features a transformation/aggregation server (loot) with caching invalidation from the wikipedia API, and a server that renders the web application (loot-ui) (the same one that runs on the client).

Expanded docs are available (docs).

At the moment, there is a live version at loot.wmflabs.org/wiki/Wikipedia.

The site works complete offline and it is installable on the phone’s homescreen. HTML only version fully supported.

See the docs for more detailed information.